Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 September 1908 — Page 2

TERRIBLE FIGHTING FORCE TO SUPPLANT WARSHIPS

Expert Discourses on Japan’s Navy Increase, and the Probabilities which Airships Hold Forth for the Dogs of War.

' APAN is doubling its fighting strength on water. The eyes of the whole world are on the ori-'—-m ental kingdom, for the ﬂ Japanese admiralty has started a decided innovatipn in accomplishing that purpose. An almost’ unbelievable amount -of cash is not expended in this movement, but. the Russian vessels, captured in the Russo-Japanese war, are being re-equipped, re-armored, more guns are being installed and the general appearance and strength of the entire navy, including the craft which were under the mikado’s jurisdiction before the war, is being heightened. into Japan’s plans are being thrown the most modern of ideas and every possible weakness, noted in the recent war, is being banished in the strengthening process. Since the recent installation of a new Japanese cabinet, a part announcement of plans has been

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given to the world, and by the exertion of bits of imagination here fand there naval experts declare they foresee one of the strongest navies which ever kicked up spray in the Pacific. ‘Here’s the way it's being done, this being the official annountement given out by the Japanese admiralty bureau at Tokyvo: ik

“The Japanese admiralty has decided upon a large scheme of rearmament instead of building new ships, the armaments of the old will be altered so as to bring them into line with the most modern ideas and with the requirements indicated by the war with Russia. _Thus vessels of the Mikasa type which have hitherto carried four 12-inch guns and 14 six-inch will henceforth carry four ten-inch instead of 14 six-inch, so that their principal armament will be brought up 1o eight pieces of heavy caliber. In fact, their fighting strength will be doubled. Similarly in the case of vessels like the Retvisan, taken during the war, their new arament will consist of four 12-inch and four ten-inch pieces, the latter being substituted for the 12 six-inch which these vessels originally carried. “When the programme is carried out it will bave the advantage of creating a thoroughly homogeneous fighting force. :

“ First-class cruisers are to be added to the navy. These ships will have a displacement of 18,650 tons with a horse power of 44,000 and a speed of 26 knots. They will be 450 feet long over all with 80 feet beam and a draft of 25 feet. Their armor will be seven inches and their armament will consist of ten 12-inch guns, some sixinch -amd ten 4.T-inch. One of these ships is to be built at Kure.” Every year naval efficiency is reaching a higher plane and experts declare it to be a physiological cer{ainty that a more powerful mode of warfare on the water must come. That has been the 'trend of events from time memorial. One may go back into history to the time when the Norse-

THE WOOD LOTS OF JAPAN.

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men fought from rafts. Later came their crude canoes . and then the Vikings. Several hundred years elapsed and big nations fought from behind bulwarks on wooden ships. Efforts were then made to put speed into the sailing vessels. The discovery of the steam engine helped this. Then came the eventual discarding of wooden vessels. This was brought about in America when the battle between the Motitor and Merrimac was fought and the fight in itself marked a step in naval warfare. The Merrimac emhodied an idea up to that time unthought of in its armor of steel rails laid half a foot or more thick on its sides and top. No shells of that time were found able to pierce this arrange-

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ment. But the. Monitor came along with its revolving turret, ironclad, and, northerners say, bested the Merrimac. Riglﬂt in that battle were two steps in njava] progress, and Capt. Ericsson, 'whose family tree -dates back to the timés~of the Norseman,

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was the inventor of the biggest move: towards{ a high standard of efficiency when he perfected the revolving, armored turret. : "What this itvention will be one can only guess anpd most of to-day’s guesses ‘ are poor. From present indications, however, the airship is to be a factor, and when the inventor turns out an aeroplane which can carry men and shells in sufficient quantity to do real damage, then our impressive battleships will be melted into steel rails. Each year the powers are putting more money into their marine fighting apparatus, and Germany and England, more especially, are eying each other’s ‘naval budget in an anxious! matter. | Most readers of foreign news

yield of lumber is about 88 feet, board measure, an acre,. and three-fourths of a cord of fire wood. In many cases the yield is muech higher. More than 500,000,000 trees are planted yearly to make up what is cut for lumber and fuel. . " Assessment for taxation is low, averaging for the 21,000,000 lots less than one dollar an acre. With all the care in cutting and the jndustry in replanting, it {8 by no means certain that Japan's forests are holding their own, the preservation of the for-

will recall the session of parliament which dealt with _the last British naval budget, the largest in the history of the nation. Emperor William of Germany, it was reported at the time, addressed a personal commumication to Lord Tweedmouth, who had charge of the naval end of England’s wellfare, asking the latter-to cut his naval budget. This story was not denied, but talk of it was so avoided by officials that the British public to-day believe that the letter actually was received. It aroused criticism from all Britain." It is. said that the kaiser realized that the two biggest nations of the old world must keep pace with each other in this line, and perhaps feeling that a large expenditure by Germany was not advisable, realized that the only avenue of exit from such a possibility was to see the British budget reduced. : President Roosevelt’s feelings on the ma.ter were amply told in the record of the last congress when he tried to get that august body’ to appropriate for four new warships. However, theie there were too many men of peaceful and public buildings = inclinations among -the wearers of the toga and they dealt a solar plexus blow to the project, from which it only half recovered—to the extent of two warships. Both of these vessels have already been launched. With Japan, the little terror of the far east, burnishing up its navy, the probabilities are that the powers may go even farther next year in expenditures for warships, and the only block to the great! amount expended seemp to be the devising' of some new mod

Model of Epgland’s Military Airship.

of warfare which will render warships useless. Of course every country maintains a land force, but all realize that the best move against an oncoming enemy is to beat them to the battlefield, and as a consequence, the usual approach being water, the navies of the world ‘are strengthened to their top-most point. Russia has not yet recovered from its set-to with the mikado’s subjects, but the scrap left the Japs with a few more battle-ships and a splendid plan for strengthening their navy without expending great sums of money and contracting new loans. Going farther into the probabilities of the new style of warfare which seems imminent, we may have battles of the air—a very dangerous mode of scrapping to the uninterested spectator below. Probably that would be the deadliest sort of combat known, for in “sinking” an airship every man aboard would undoubtedly be killed by hard compdct with mother earth. Then, on the other hand, perhaps there will be no future wars, at least among the large and civilized powers. Of course the barbarians will break out occasionally, but among the bigger nations there are now so many peace bodies that one has to walk about carefully in.order not to encounter doves of peace, minus feathers. There are dozens of international peace and arbitration societies whose one theme is “don’t shoot,” and these hold sessions annually. It is said that they really cement relations between countries and the time may come when they will become so numerous that conflict will be impossible without slaying brothers. The Hague tribunal is another medium of the big powers, always ready to decide little disputes which threaten to develop intq “international complications.” As a consequence it looks dark for the dogs of war and just as inky for the men of peace, who would keep the canines tied. But come what !will, within a generation or two the world is to be given some new fighting force which will astound the nations, not in on the secret, to such an extent that there will either be an entire cesiation of all Hostilities or some two will get together and one will be made such a beautiful example of that the watching nations will decide that C-n. Sherman was right about war,

that depletion must be alarmingly rapid in other countries, which cut un: sparigly and plant very little. On the other hand, it i 8 encouraging to ree what can be done with rough, steesp and poor land. The United State: has enough of that kind, without touching the rich agricultural acres, to grow billions of feet of lumber. : And Money .Saved. : A sound unknown in tropical cities is the harsh grating of the coal being shoveled into cellars for the coming winter~Mexican Herald, @ =

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HOW UMPIRE TIM HURST "~ HANDED IT TO COOLEY

Latter Tried to Be Put Out of Contest, But Veteran Was On to : His Game.

Of all umpires before or since there are none that have had o much newspaper space accorded to them as the chubby little umpire, Tim Hurst, says the Washington Post. There has never been one who has ruled the field with the same rod of iron as has Sir Timothy, and this in the days when ball players were men who would as soon trim an umpire as they would attend to any of the ordinary avocations of the day. Such fistic giants of the grassy diamond as Paf Tebeau, Jimmy McAllis‘ter, Jack O’Connor, Glasscock, -Virgil Garvin and many others too numerous to mention, who made it a point to go after the umpires of a decade and more ago, never tried any: of their games on Hurst and came out of the big end of the horn. Tim always won out hands down, and, in addition, made the other fellows eat crow of the bitterest variety. Hurst always adapted himself to the situation in hand, and, as the song goes in the opera of “The Mikado,” he invariably made the “punishment fit the crime.” Bill Bernhard, when in Washington last year with the Cleveland Club, told a story concerning Hurst and Dick Cooley, who was then a member of the Philadelphia team, as was Bernhard himself. The story, which has perhaps never before been in print, treats of one day when Cooley, in running backward to make a difficult catch, fell over on his head, and, in addition, got such a shaking up that he asked his manager to allow him to retire from the game, but Dick was a swell batter, and the manager, thinking that he was faking, refused his request. ; ; But Cooley was surely hurt badly, for he began to miss balls and also to strike out, and then he suddenly thought of a plan that would enable him to get out of the game, and he started in to abuse Hurst, but Tim was wise to the situation, and he let Dick ‘“chew the rag” to his heart's content, and, as Bernhard says, it was estimated by Tom Sampson, the mathematician of the Philadelphia team, that Dick did enough to be fined, at the smallest calculation, $ll,OOO, and to be put out of the game for 355 years. ,

Every decision made Dick would come running in and would abuse Tim frightfully, but Hurst, with a knowing smile on his face, would wave him to one side. Finally after an unusually fervid burst .of billingsgate, Dick, sticking his face close up to Tim’s, shrieked: ¢ “Going to chase me from the game, eh?”

“Naw,” leisurely replied Tim; “I'm going to keep you in the game, just to show the people what a bum ball player you really are.” - Jeffries Likes Baseball. James J. Jeffries is about to take a hand in baseball. Unless the unexpected happens he will buy an interest in the new Los Angeles, Cal., franchise, which was awarded at the last meeting of the Pacific Coast league. Jeffries has always been a baseball crank. When he was traveling about the country defending his title against all comers he never overlooked a chance to take in a game, and since he has retired from ‘the ring he has been an ardent supporter of the Angels. Several prominent sporting men will join Jeffries as a stockholder. Ambidextrous Pitcher, It is the general opinion that no pitcher can ever throw both right and left handed with equal skill. Back in the 'Bo's when Jim McAleer and Ed McKean were playing with Youngstown, in the Iron and Oil league, an ambidextrous pitcher by the name of Keenan played on the same team. This man could work equally well with right or left. On July 4, 1885, McAleer says he pitched two games against New Castle, twirling the morning game with his right and the afternoon performance with his left hand, winning both games. —e e e . Minor Leaguers Come -High.- - ~ According to a baseball official who knows, purchase prices for .minor league players are running pretty stiff this’ season. Theé $ll,OOO paid by the New York Nationals for Pitcher Marquard is a sample. That amount was paid, too. One American league club bid $8,600. » : egt MB i S lvisnmssmShomaltening o ﬂ

LIFE OF THE AVERAGE ‘ BALL PLAYER IS SHORT

Strenuous Training Each Spring and - Temptations to Drink Hard on Majority.

Just now while the annual Cy Young and ‘George Van Haltren stories are going the rounds and the baseball writers are using up reams of paper telling how long these men have been. in the game, a lot of folks are wondering why so many ball players last a few seasons, go back to the minors, and then disappear entirely. The average baseball life is generally conceded to be somewhere between 10 and 12 years. A man may work in a rolling mill 12 hours a day for 20 years, he can make duplicate watches and high-grade works of art for a score of years, he can engage in all sorts of work that requires skill and good eyesight for perhaps twice as long as an average ball player retains his skill, and there must be some good reason for this. It is a noticeable fact that all the ball players who have been in the game for years and who still play as they used to, never lay off and loaf for long periods. Ball players by the hundreds quit all kinds of work when the season ends in the middle of October and do not do a tap of work until March, when their clubs go south. Then the winter laggards have to swelter and work in a hot climate to get down to playing weight. Taking off weight rapidly always saps a man’s strength, as those who grow fat in the winter are in a weakened -condition for several weeks and cannot do themselves justice. | ; The temptations to drink and lead a -fast -life are greater in baseball than in the more prosaic occupations. A star ball player is much sought, and hundreds of hangers on in places where a ball player shouldn’t be are tickled half to death if the diamond hero will join them in a “good time.” A lot of the younger fellows fall for it and in consequence come back in the spring in mighty poor shape. An observer could name two dozen veterans of the American league who slow up just a little each season, who worrk and work to dis¥raction each spring to catch on by the time the season starts, yet who spend their winters in luxurious idleness. It seems a queer way of doing. Some ‘one has suggested that club owners sign up their players in a 12months’ contract, and run a wood chopping brigade or a pedestrian club in the winter time. But the managers and magnates have enough woes keeping the men going during the season. GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND Manager Murray made a good move when he pulled Lefthander Foxen from Jersey City. He has more than made good. ; “Managers who stand for players who insult umpires are worse than the players, and poor baseball assets,” declares an eastern baseball man.- ' Thomas Tuokey, a pitcher of the Meriden team of the Connecticut league, has been sold to the Boston Nationals for $1,500. It was announced that Capt. Gus Soffel of the Meriden team will gb with the Boston team at the end of the Connecticut league season. Jimmy Kane of Cincinnati is the lightest man in the National league. He weighs about 122 pounds, but is as fleet as any fielder in the game!and can stick nicely. = The Cincinnati Reds will surely have a great string of young pitchers on hand next spring. They have already signed about a dozen, the latest being Russell Ford of Atlanta in;*the Southern league. ' - Big Ed Walsh of the Chicago Americans has pitched more games ‘than any other big league pitcher, He has now performed in excess of 30 games, which is a season's work for many so-called crack pitchers. | He certainly is a willing horse. Chicago, Pittsburg and New York are glancing behind at the buzzing noise and the cloud of dust whi%r is bearing down on them. It's the Philn”o ° g 7 i . > Herman Shaefer has been made fleld captain of the Detroit Tigers in place of Coughlin, Shaefer is the pekper merchant of the club outside of ] - _The latest spoken of as manager of

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Upward of 17 years as a pitcher in major leagues is the marvelous record of “Old Cy” Young o the Boston. Americans. This stamps the elderly youth as one of the most remarkable athletes in history. He is over 40 years of age, yet is regarded as one of the best pitchers in the country today, none barred. - His feat recently’ in pitching a no-hit-no-run game, allowing only one man to reach first, shows what the old boy still has in him.. The Red Sox may go along losing, but whenever “Old Cy’s” turn comes to fling it generally means a victory for him. He is more feared than any pitcher in the American league with the exception, possibly; of Ed Walshk of the White Sox. And the strangest thing about it all is that Young uses few curves. He has lots of speed, but relies principally on his wonderful control. Every batter in the American league, with such exceptions as the youngsters whom he has never pitched against, has. been sized up by “Old Cy” and he knows just what they don’'t like. Then he goes ahead and feeds this kind of balls to them. He has little preliminary motion before delivering the ball, thus comserving his strength. It is probably due to the _— “[TeTTe T T PR T | ! T 1 il qlw i . | H‘ “ e s —— i :I' . . ‘(\\ Mgl O: & A e ~. N 7z /»/f’"‘{',: = -;. % ;/" g .' ] YT T // s Vg ) TR edsF N> %, o) “/ & 7%\ ; //2,,; . Y. : '_,/ = : = 2 : / / ‘\“\ \ k. X.“ . /// "-\‘*\\\\\3‘ 5 2 7, /I 8 :\§\ 2 o 2 7 N 0 4 7 /4'@).‘?/7/_'/ 7 L 8 //{}”/ // - /1 ” ) 7 / q /‘/ 4 & ) R ; | e | : “Cy” Young. few curves that he employs. that he" has been able to stick to the game as long as he has. Three no-hit-no-run »games have been pitched by “oOld Cy” since he has been in the big leagues. In addition to his - recent ' feat he twirled one for the old Cleveldnds and one against Philadelphia on "May 5, 1904, while twirling for Boston. In this game he did not allow a batter ta reach first base. It is impossible to say how many more years “Old Cy” will stick to baseball. He is apparently ‘as valuable, or more so, than ever and shows no signs of letting up. Nc¢ team in major league circles would pass by an opportunity of securing him from Boston if able, but John I. Taylor, owner of the Red Sox, would not let the veteran go for anything reasonable. The Boston fans idolize him and he likes the Hub city. It is not at all impossible that he will pass several more useful years in baseball circles. v

To the uninitiated the notices that have been published from time to time concerning phenomenal figures paid for baseball players ‘have created the impression that baseball ~managers must be on the verge of insanity. The innocent reader who sees -that $ll,OOO has been paid for a player who has never been in fast company but a part of a season, wonders how it‘'is that managers will take the chances of buying an untried player for such a large amount of money. They probably do not know that there is a good sized string attached to the deal. Managers demand for these high-priced men that they shall deliver the goods, and,unless they can do so, they do not purchase. In other words baseball players are bought and paid for on the installment plan. In the case of a pitcher, for instance, if he wins a certain number of games a certain' percentage of the purchase price is handed over, and in the case of an in or outfielder a part of his purchase price is paid after he has shown that he is not a four-flusher. The enormous amounts paid for baseball players largely belong to the same class of enormous amouats paid to actors and actorines. e :

Unable for one reason or another to get the big league players he needs to strengthen his club, Charley Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn club, is raking in all the likely minor leaguers he can lay his hands on. The gther day he captured another, who,.according to his reputation down east, is about ready to make a big splash in the baseball puddle. 3 His name is Catterson, and just now he is drawing his pay from. the Brockton club of the New England league. He is an outfielder and has been hitting at a .350. or .355 clip all season. He leads his league with the bat. Catterson is a’ big, husky fellow, fast on his feet and a bang-up fielder. More than one National league club, including the Chicago Cubs, has been after him, but Brooklyn’s offer was too good to turn down. He will report after the close of the New England league season. : Managers McAleer and Mack have traded catchers. Sid Smith, the 1908 batting monarch of the Southern association and a member of the Atlanta

HAD CHOSEN RIGHT VOCATION. Young Man’s Future in the Legal Pro- : fession Assured. ' . = : | The young lawyer had waited mahy days for clients, and still they did not come. His bills were mounting bigher and higher, and, sad to say, some of his creditors were becoming impatient. At this very minute his tailor, whom he owed for his last winter's overcoat, was sitting beside his desk attering all sorts of dire threats. - “Tll pay you when I can,” he said. - “Well, that don't satisfy me,” retorted the tailor. “What would happen, do Yyou think, if I were to take this matter to the courts and sue you? “You'd get judgment, ‘of course,” said the young lawyer. v “Then in your own opinion you have not a leg left to stand on,” insisted the tailor. _ “Not a leg,” returned the briefiess youth. : “Very well, then, I shall proceed at once,” said the tailor, rising. - = “I certainly advise you to,” said the lawyer, with a gleam in his eye. i “I shall most certainly accept vour advice,” retorted the tailor, sacrastically. ¢ “Good,” said the lawyer. “What is the amount of your bill?” L “Sixty-eight’ dollars and fifty cents” said the tailor. . “All right,” said the lawyer. “Hand over six fifty, please.” “Six fifty?” said the tailor. “What for?” - “You have just consuited me in’the matter of a suit at law and have stated that you accept my advice. My charge for that is $75, and the six fifty is the difference between ' your bill and mine,” said the lawvyer. ™Nf 1 dom™t hear from you by noon to-morrow I shall put the matter in the hands of my attorneys. Good morning, sir” And the tailor went out marveling much that so ingenious. a young gemtleman should be a member of -the great army of the unemploved —Harper’'s Weekly. , . i

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Wealthy farmers of Armstrong and Westmoreland counties, Pennsylvania, kave been victimized by a brand mew confidence game. Recently a man in the garb of a minister called at the farm of W. B. Templeton, near Adrian, and asked for lodgings for the night Templeton, impressed by the stranger, readily consented. Next morning, before the stranger departed, a man and woman hurriedly drove up to the farm house, and said they had heard that a preacher was stopping there. “They -wanted to get married at once, and the “‘minister” performed the ceremony. : , Templeton and his wife signed the certificate as witmesses. A week jater the alleged marriage certificate turned up in the First National bank at East Brady as a promissory note for $3OB, which Templeton had to pay. A number of otlter farmers have'been swindled in the same manner.— New York Tribune. : il A Little Devil in the Heart. An insane devil lurks in the heart of even the most sainted woman It is the little devil that makes a young wife ask her devoted husband which of the two he would save if she and her mother were drowning, writes Wiiliam J. Locke in . his story “Simple Septimus,” in the American Magazine. It is the same little devil that is responsible for infinite mendacity om the part of men. “Have jyou said that to another woman?” No:; of course he hadn’t, and the wretch is instantly perjured. “My immortal soul,” 'says the good fellow, instantaneously converted into an atrocioss liar; and the little devil coos with satisfaction and curls himself np snugly to sleep.- 4 - . Old-Time Speed Maniacs. A century and a half ago the wayfarer on England’'s great highways | was little better off in the matter of security from accident than he is im these days of speed-loving motorists. A French traveler in 1765, recording his journeys from Dover to London. explained the existence of the wayside footpath marked off by posts as being due to “the extreme speed at which the English veln"clés drive in the coumtry (coptrary to their practice in the town})’,g never stopping to avoid rumning” over and maiming foot passengers.” Tl . : :

The Sweetest Songster. _ Over the breakfast Miss Dorothy, the enthusiastic ornithologist of the boarding house, discussed the merits of the nightingale, lark, thrush amnd so forth. * “And which, Mr. Hunker,” éxclaimed Miss Dorothy, “which of ail the somgbirds are you fondest of?” . “I prefer the hen, Miss Dorothy.” “But the hen isn’t a song-bird at a%l!“ objected Miss Dorothy. ] “Well,” replied Hunker, tapping am- ° other hard-boiled egg, “it's the omly bird whose lay I care: for!” An Ironical Disposition. “Women love to cry at the theater” said the observant person. “Yes,” answered Mr. Groucher, *I wish somebody would write a play about a man who had to mind the children and get his own dinner because his wife was at a matinee. I wonder if my wife would shed tears of svmpathy when-she saw it?” : . ’ A Self-Help Advocate. “So you will contribute nothing to our campaign fund?” said the discomraged collector. L ; “Nothing whatever,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “A candidate nowadays should be sufficiently popular to make his magazine articles and copyrighted photographs supply ¢ his own cam paign funds.” N S = . Uncle Jerry. s “What they call ‘honor’ isa mighty curious thing,” observed Uncle Jerry Peebles. “I know a man who would cheerfully starve -himself upv gambling debt, and he still owes 5 preacher that married him 27 vears Ml s | o - e e e e 1 o What Did He Mean? °~ “You say you are compeiled tosing . by your peeemmt.. - . '::1}:.:%;,,”» R f 2 »\: s —i‘ &~,“~ :